MICROSOFT MEDIA EMBLAZED

From Friday's Guardian. I guess that the 'market professionals' must mean us.

Fired up

Emblaze, the Israeli wireless technology group, was in demand yesterday amid talk that it is close to making its long-awaited breakthrough into the British mobile phone market. Market professionals reckon the cash-rich company is close to announcing a supply agreement with Virgin Mobile. The reason is that one of the company's handsets, the Emblaze Sting 6, appears in the phones section of the Virgin Mobile website. (Readers interested in seeing a picture of the phone should go to Virginmobile.com). As such, traders are hopeful the handset will be on sale in time for the pre-Christmas trading period. Emblaze shares, which recently hit a 12-month low, closed 5.25p higher at 121p.